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Britain's Space Strategy

How should the UK deal with military threats from space, in an increasingly dangerous multipolar world?

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Mar 11, 2025
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What if, tomorrow, the Russian rocket forces launched an anti-satellite weapon at a British Skynet satellite and destroyed it? How would we respond? Russia almost certainly has the capability to do this. They demonstrated a low Earth orbit direct ascents ASAT weapon in 2021, and reaching geostationary altitudes with such a weapon is not beyond their tec…

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